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Chapter 3 - Google Docs. Documents. Google Docs for Teachers 2012. Google Docs Tutorial. How to use Print or save the Interactive RubricLog in to Google Docs (use your Google Account or select Create a new account)Read the Purpose, Learning Objectives, and VocabularyGo through tasks 1-4 while filling out the Interactive RubricPurpose Google Docs is a very powerful real-time collaboration and document authoring tool.

Multiple users can edit a document at the same time, while seeing each others' changes instantaneously. Users can produce text documents, slide presentations, spreadsheets, drawings, and surveys. All interactions and files are contained in Google's Internet servers (the cloud), and are accessible from within a web browser window. The purpose of this tutorial is to guide you through getting acquainted with Google Docs' features so that you can apply them to your professional environment. Learning Objectives By the end of this tutorial I will be able to: Vocabulary. 7-wonderful-google-docs-tutorials-for. 7-wonderful-google-docs-tutorials-for. Google Drive is one of the best cloud storage services available online . Beside its being free to use, it also offers 15 GB of free storage capacity with the possibility of buying more. Apart from storing your files in the cloud and being able to access them from any computer or hand-held device, Google Drive is a strong productivity suite with services that allow users to create forms, documents, spreadsheets, and drawings. users can collaborate, edit, and work on these documents synchronously.Given its huge potential in education, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has devoted an entire section to everything teachers and educators need to know to tap into this educational potential.

Check it out HERE for more resources. Today I am sharing with you some important tips that might render your work on Google Drive more productive and enjoyable. Check them out below and let us know what you think of them. 3. Create and Share a Presentation - Google Docs Tutorial. Now that you've created a folder and shared it with a friend, you've created a document to put in the folder, and now it's time to create a presentation. 1.

Click on the Create new button at the top-left of the page. Select Presentation from the drop down menu. 2. Add a title to your presentation. Call it "Presentation Tutorial Practice". 3. 8. 10. 16. 7-wonderful-google-docs-tutorials-for. Following the Google Docs guides I have been posting here, I received several other tips to add to these guides. I know it is impossible for me to cover all the details of these web services but some of these tips are really important and should not pass incognito. As I told you before, this blog is a fruit of a collaborative work between me and you and I do learn a lot from you as you do from me. Now here is a round-up of the new hacks you can do on Google Docs\ Drive. 1- Preview Docs A couple of months ago, Google Drive introduced the option of previewing your docs before you open, share or download them.

To preview your doc, click on the check box next to it and right click on the file name then click on preview, see snapshot. 2- Open Word docs files in Google Docs To open a Word document ( Docx) that is uploaded in your Google Drive all you have to do is tick the box next to it , right click on the file name, select " open with " then click on " open with Google Drive " Free Google Documents Tutorial at GCFLearnFree.